Olive Auction built this page from public records so buyers can find the estate. Its own people can claim it at no cost — complete the story, list lots, answer buyers.
After a claim, we confirm by emailEverything here comes from public sources — award lists, certification registers, the territory inventories. The rest of the story — the family, the grove, the real age of the trees, this year's lab sheet — only the mill can tell, and it is the part buyers bid on.
Torre de Palma sits on farmland outside Monforte, in the Alto Alentejo, where wine and olive oil have been made since the Romans. The estate's own history puts the first period in the 1st century AD, when the Basilii family, landowners here until the 5th century, produced wine and oil and bred horses, trading along the route between Lisbon, Mérida and Rome; the mosaic floors they left are, by the estate's account, probably the largest in the Iberian Peninsula, and the Horse and Bacchus Procession panels are held at the National Archaeology Museum in Lisbon.
The Order of Avis settled in the region in 1277, and in 1338 the estate became Crown property, granted to Pedro Afonso by his brother, King Afonso IV, and there it stayed for over five hundred years. In 1863 a Lisbon merchant, Jacinto da Silva Falcão, bought it and let it to the Costa Pinto family, who farmed cereals, olive oil and livestock for about eighty years; they left in December 1973, and after the 1974 revolution the land was worked by its employees as the first collective production unit in the Alentejo. A court dispute ran to 2007, after which Ana Isabel Rebelo and Paulo Rebelo bought the property and restored it to its old purpose: wine and olive oil produced, horses bred, guests housed. The wine hotel opened in 2014 to plans by João Mendes Ribeiro. Seven hectares of vineyard and a small olive grove sit on the land, and the estate bottles an extra virgin olive oil from Galega and Cobrançosa.
From the public record: torredepalma.com · shop.torredepalma.com
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Lab numbers, tree references, harvest dates, a photo — the tap-through form asks only for what buyers pay for.
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